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Crime and Prejudice
What's in a name?
by Julia L. Miller
I wrote Crime and Prejudice as a pastiche, but what does that mean? The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'pastiche' as “the technique of incorporating distinctive elements of other works or styles in a literary composition”. In my case, the original whose style I wanted to emulate was Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. That isn’t the only work I’ve referenced, however. The stories in Crime and Prejudice are full of allusions to other books and characters. Some of these would have been known to Jane Austen, but others are more recent. I included these allusions because I love following up such clues in the writing of other authors.
